The New OgEGOK STATESMAW. Salem. Orcrmu Friday fobniing; April J28. 1929
PAGE FOUR
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"ATo Faror Stcays Us; No Fear ShaU Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
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Surplus of Useless Women
"l7t)MEN back in St. Louis have a new diversion; they
W resort to playing lotto at resorts specially fitted up
for lotto gambling. The high sheriff and his deputies back
there have gone a-raiding these female lotto dens. The pro
prietors threaten to seek court
Now all men will agree our
used to be." We read in the
devices, the electric washer:
drudgery so she can spend more
automatic ranire: relieves the
erv so she can sDend more
vacuum sweeper; relieves the
drudgery so she can spend more time with her children. But
bless our souls, the modern women don't have any children,
that is compared with the multiple count of years ago; they
don't drudcre in the kitchen because husband lunches down
town and they dine at restaurants frequently of evenings;
and living in two-by-four box apartments relieves modern
women of any more housecleaiung than a few swipes with a
Hunt, rlnth
So the women of today
hands. Some of them go in
ties, parent teachers associations; others prefer cigarettes,
highballs and LOTTO. Still others get jobs and crowd out
the srirls who haven't been lucky enough to catch a man.
We spend a lot of sympathy 'commiserating the lot of
the Hindu females and send a lot of inquisitors abroad to see
what they can do to raise foreign women to the level of those
in America. Suppose we just stand off and look at our own
civilization and look at our emancipated womanhood, revelling
now in useless idleness, thousands of them with empty hands
and emptier brains, satisfied to be the plaything of man, de
fying the biological mandate for
incr themselves of life's choicest
Lotto. Let them go on with lotto. But the race will
pay the price. More virile and more fecund peoples will take
the lead as our modern civilization falls into decay.
The Gasoline Racket
NOW the service station men are having their innings at
looking about for some "relief." We thought the trouble
was that too many farmers had sought relief by going into
the service station business. That doesn't seem to be true
because thev keep on putting
one is sroins in across from the
eet rid of this old castle, lease
But if the farmers think they are the only ones pickled
in brine they might study the woes of the service station
operators. The trouble set in a few years ago when the oil
companies in their eagerness for outlets made lease deals
with independent stations whereby the station owner leased
his station to the company and then sub-leased it back from
the company. He got a special consideration of about a cent
a gallon difference on the gas he bought, but was tied up to
handle only the one company's gas. That's where the shoe
pinches now. Service station operators claim they are being
help up by the oil companies to pay the established price
while the companies themselves go after business on the
outside and quote wholesale prices much lower than the sta
tion operator receives.
Too much, gasoline, too many service stations, too much
wheat, too many potatoes, too many lawyers, too many groc
ery stores, round pegs, square
ing due next week how the
a living anyway ?
It's a great mystery, but somehow we manage to mud
dle through, and are known as the greatest consumers of
autos, radios, grapefruit, saxophones, chautauqua lectures,
and telephones in the whole wide world.
The Vernonia Cut-Off
fTtHE completion of a good highway from Forest Grove
A through Vernonia to Rainier, connecting with the Rai-
nier-Longview bridge is being
munities in that section. On
feasible. It would make for
from points on the west side highway going north into Wash
ington. McMinnville, Forest
are in a fairly straight line. Besides saving in mileage time
would be saved by avoiding city traffic in Portland.
However the road would not
for there is considerable hilly
and Vernonia and from the
Until a standard highway was
net gain in time or expense would not be very much. The
route is a practical one; it will be a help to the west side
highway; and will give the chambers of commerce and serv
ice clubs in the interested towns another "activity" to ork
on for 1929,
The President's English
PRESIDENT HOOVER is getting off very well except
with the sharks on rhetoric. In his speech the other
night he referred to law enforcement as the "most dominant
issue", and the wiseacres rise up and ask why "most"? .
In his message to congress on farm relief he U3ed the
fhr.tc "equivalent to that of those wnirh." That would go
hard even on a rr;onotype.
So far however we haven't heard of anyone around
Washington wiio didn't get his ideas when he does say some
thing, which i important at any rate. Then he isn't writing
magazine articles either, like his late opponent.
We see no particular danger to public welfare because
the subsidiary of the International Paper company bought a
half interest in the Boston Herald and the Boston Traveler.
The International is now in the power business through its
control of the International Hydro-Electric system; but the
fact that the ownership of these papers is known makes
their editorial voice of no consequence where utilityques
tions are up for discussion. The danger to the free and un
trammeled pres. lies rather in the secret control of news
papers through devious and unknown ways, and in the dis
semination of subtle propaganda to warp public judgment
So long as utility ownership is known then the paper is
branded and its influence is vitiated. Control through pa-tror-se
or through credit is what is sinister.
Chairman Raskob is trying to get the democrats to take
cp the little hang-over from last fall which totals $1,300,
000. Evidently the sale of Al Smith's book didn't take off
many ciphers from the deficit Maybe they can get Al to
split fifty-fifty on his Saturday Evening Post receipts.
protection irora pouce raius.
women folks "ain't what they
ads of our modern household
"relieves the housewife of
time with her children." The
housewife of kitchen druag-
time with her children. The
housewife of housecleaning
have all this leisure on their
for clubs, societies, bridge par
their very existence,, cheat
blessing.
in service stations. Another
city hall. Here's a chance to
the site for a service station
holes, taxes too high and com
devil is a fellow going to make
,
urged by the interested com
the map the road looks quite
a substantial saving in time
Grove, Vernonia and Rainier
be as easy as the dud shows
country between Forest Grove
latter point direct to Rainier.
completed on this route the
They Say...
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MONMOUTH. April 23.
Editor Statesman:
I notice on your editorial page
a quotation from some paper on
efficiency in farming. There was
a time when everybody could tell
an editor how to run his paper.
Now every ink-slinger from edi
torial writers o n metropolitan
dailys down to the owners of the
Podunck Bugle's think they are
competent to tell thefajmer how
to farm. - '
Listen to this, "The best and
soundest farm relief that can
come Is the introduction of more
efficient and more modern meth
ods." (and more in (he same
rein.) Which specifically means
nothing at all. Just patter that
any high school youngster could
get off. Now if that editor is an
agriculturist expert why doesn't
he tell the farmer what to plant,
how to plant it. and when he
raises a bumper crop how to get
a price that will show a profit.
Or he might order a better
brand of weather for the Willam
ette valley. In the last few years
we have been frozen out, burnt
out, and soaked out with rains at
the wrong time.
We are tired of this "unusual"
weather and want the, kind the
old timers tell us we used to have.
The Poduncker might get his
fellow editors to join with him in
a cam pa gin to educate town peo
ple about the foolishness of keep
ing so many pet dogs to scatter
children's diseases and annoy
people with their unsanitary hab
its and incldently kill 130.000.00
worth of sheep in ten counties of
western Oregon as was done last
year.
One Portland daily which fre
quently rebukes the "sob sisters"
yesterday had an editorial slobber
ing, sentiment about dogs. "Verily
consistency thou art a Jewel."
Here's hoping the editors will
take their coats off and turn their
rmassive intellects in real earnest
on farming problems
Until they do the farmers will
have to depend on county agents
and the agriculturalist college.
JAY POWELL.
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The States
man Our Fathers Read
April 26, 10O4
Rev. R. T. Cross, D. D., of Eu
gene, was elected moderator of
the East Willamette association
of Congregational churches, in ses
sion here today. Rer. G. W. Nel
son of Albany is register and trea
surer. Commemorating the formation
of the first civil government on
the Pacific coast, F. X. Matthieu
Cabin, Native Sons of Oregon, will
hold a reunion at Champoeg next
Monday. Former Governor T. T.
Geer will preside.
The section crew of the South
ern Pacific has been busy for
more than a week straightening
up and repairing the company's
tracks In the city limits.
The law firm of Carson and Ad
ams will henceforth be known as
Carson, Adams and Cannon, Al
exander M. Cannon having joined
the firm.
STOLEN CAR KEEN
Police In Eugene report seeing
the Reo coupe stolen from Lowell
White, CIS South Church street,
Wednesday night. The ear passed
through the Lane county town
shortly before the report of Its
theft waj received.
April Showers
Bits for Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
"Who Platted Salem?"
This question has been asked of
The Statesman. The original town
was platted by Dr. W. H. Willsoa,
and the plat recorded In the office
of I. N. Gilbert, clerk of Marlon
county, territory of Oregon. March
22, 1850. The plat covered the
blocks from the Willamette river
east to Capitol street, south to
Leslie and a tier of blocks unnum
bered beyond, as far east as Cot
tage street, and north to Division,
and to Fir and on to North street
along the river front. The question
included an inquiry as to who
made the survey. It is not known.
It is thought a government snr.
veyor, for Oregon was then a ter
ritory. Jesse Applegate was at the
old mission and the new one on
Chemeketa plains (Salem) in the
winter of 1843-44, and did some
surveying; but he moved to where
Dallas la now, in the latter year,
and to Yoncalla In the Umpqua
valley in 1849. A whole volume
of history could be written. about
the platting of Salem and its var
ious additions. ,
Another question nas been
asked of The Statesman: "Who
planted the redwood tree in North
Summer street? It was William
Waldo, who lived there (a bache
lor) before that part of Salem was
platted. A. N. Bush was respons
ible for the preserving of the red.
wood tree; providing the light for
safety, now a permanent light.
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There are other historic trees
in Salem. One is a cedar of Leb
anon, on the north side of Che.
meketa street, near North Sum
mer. Who planted that? The Bits
man thinks Dr. J. A. Richardson,
a pioneer physician and old time
mayor of Salem. The Bits man
would be pleased to have others
pointed out. This would be a good
study for the school children.
A Salemlte with a Scotch accent
says two of his countrymen In
Portland saw a twobit piece on a
Portland street and they were
both taken to the hospital suffer
ing from concussion of the brain.
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He also tells the story of the
Free Press of Aberdeen that had
to change Its name, because the
inhabitants took the name for the
deed; they all brought their trous.
era to be presred.
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Also; he says a countryman of
his moved to a house opposite the
building on which was the town
clock; and he stopped his watch.
. .
National egg week begins next
Wednesday, May 1. Ton are no
true JSalemite of the 100per cent
vintage unless you fill yourself
with cackleberry fruit till you are
yellow around the gills and crow
like a game rooster. It Is your duty
to help make this the Petaluma
plus of Oregon, with $20,000,000
a year, with that much more to
Miss Archibald,
Ex-Turner Girl,
Has Operation
TURNER, April SB. The
friends of Miss Mabel Archibald
regret to hear of her illness at a
Portland hospital, where she un
derwent an operation for appen
dicitis. Miss Archibald was a high
school pulpl at Turner last year
but is attending N. P. B. Institute
in Portland this year.
Mrs. Margaret Duncan of Sa
lem visited at her farm Monday
afternoon.
S. Palmerton, L. Edwards and
O. P. Given are delivering milk In
Salem.
Mrs. Wayton Savage of Brem
erton, is visiting her sisterQn-law.
Mrs. Ella Given and family. Her
little daughter who has spent the
winter at her aunts home will re
turn with her Sunday. -
carry, for our poultry products.
Salem has the right and duty to
become the cock of the walk of the
whole poultry world. Nature de
creed this, and it Is our own fault
if we do not fulfill this high des
tiny. U
An elevator Is finally being put
in the Marlon county mrthouse.
which will' allow of the use of the
attic part of the building, that has
so far been of little service. This
wilt be a good Improvement, and
It will for a longer time preserve
that historic building from needing
unsightly additions. It is a remark
able structure, for the time of its
construction, in 1870, when the
two commissioners, John Giesy of
Aurora and Al Coolidge of Silver'
ton and Judge C. N. Terry, com
prising the county court, author
ised the building of it. This made
them unpopular, on account of
what the taxpayers thought was a
too high cost for the time. But
they soon got over this, and since
that time the building has stood
as a part of the seven most beau
tiful civic centers In the United
States; so pronounced by good
judges. It is a fine thing to have
It preserved. The original cost was
less than $100,000. It would be
three times that now.
V
. The state house, finished, cost
less than $500,000; less than the
estimate the only ease of the
k'nd In the United States. The new
fCee bulMiag will coit more;
good deal more, counting the pre
sent supreme court building, which
will be a part of it.
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220 N. Liberty St.
Editoro Say 2
OUR OWN VEGETABLES
The Lane county vegetable
growers association Is on the right
path in its efforts to establish def
inite standards of quality in all
the products fown and market
ed by its members. It's a difficult
task the association is undertak
ing. There are so many kinds of
vegetables, There are so many va
rieties of most vegetables. There
is, generally speaking, such a
mountainous lack of understand
ing about quality in vegetables.
So many people think that vege
table are just vegetables that
anybody with a piece of land and
some seeds can grow them, that
it makes little difference what
condition they are In or how they
are handled so long as they are
not positively bad vegetables.
Any skillful home economist
will tell you that the only really
economical vegetable is a grade A
vegetable in first class condition.
There Is practically no waste in
such' a vegetable. There Is waste
both in quantity and quality in an
inferior vegetable or one that has
stood for days without proper
packing or handling. It pays to
demand the best in vegetables, es
pecially those which are going to
be used for small children. This
Is the message which the vege
table growers of the community
are trying to tell the people.
Lane county grows some of the
finest vegetables in the world.
The fact that other markets call
for selected Lane county vege
tables testifies to this. But for
the successful marketing o f
quality vegetables both here and
elsewhere there is great need of
standardization as to quality In
the various varieties. It would
be helpful to the Lane county
growers, as their program devel
ops, if they could devise some sim
ple marker by which goods that
measure up could be known. It
would be very helpful to the grow
ers if grocers and marketmen gen
erally would urge the buying of
graded goods and if buyers would
insist on quality standards.
Vegetable growing in Lane
county is an Industry of far great
er importance than might be im
agined, but it is only in Its in
fancy. Lane county celery, aspar
agus, spinach, tomatoes, cucum
bers and other selected vegetables
travel to the big markets in Cal
ifornia and the middle west by the
carload. California can grow oran
ges and the middle west can grow
tall corn, but the Willamette val
ley can grow the tenderest and
juiciest green things, and distance
is no great barrier in this day of
fast trains and refrigerated cars.
But like every other industry, to
be really secure, vegetable grow
ing needs a better footing at home.
We believe people here will be
glad to know Just why the grow
ers are doing what they are doing.
Eugene Guard.
WIDER ASPECTS OF THE
POWER ISSUE
- If It .be true, as is stated by
persons who are in a position to
know, that the foremost figures
in the electrical world are be
hind the Northwest Power com
pany, now seeking the right to de
velop the Marion Lake region
with hydro-electric plants, the
question of whether its prayer
will be granted or denied will be
determined by considerations of
more general importance than the
local issue that have been thus
far advanced. If this be the fact,
Albany's position, whatever It
might be, will add little to or de
tract little from the record that
will be built up before the feder
al power commission.
Thus far. Albany's opposition to
the development has been resting
on two propositions: (1) That the
construction of the plants will de
spoil one of nature's beauty spots;
(2) that Albany's power needs are
sufficiently served by a company
whose capacity is great enough to
accommodate all the demands that
will be made upon it. There has
been a minor objection, namely
tout omen
DRESSES
$9.73
Prints and solid colors as you prefer. Youthful
styles that add lines of slenderness to the fuller
figure.
COATS
Sizes 14 to 44
$9.73
Value of these coats $19.73. Tailored and fancy
trimmed coats in the very smartest new spring;
styles. Plenty of Black Bengaline are included in
this huge selection. v
Around the Corner from
doubt ef tht ability of the active
promoter to translate his claims
into reality, but tbis objection
weuld be disposed of automatical
ly lt, 8ha that th interests
behind the movement are the larg
est in tae power world.
Consideration on which the
state and government will act in
the matter will be of a wider and
more fundamental scope. They
will decide whether or not the
proposed improvement would ad
versely affect the general public
by devastating an important wa
tershed; whether or not there is
a general public need for the add
ed volume of power which the im
provement would afford; whether
or not the project could manufac
ture and distribute electrical ener
gy cheaply enough to make its
construction feasible: whether or
not the field proposed to be en
tered is adequately served as to
volume and price. These are fac
tors that will enter into the de
cision of the federal power com
mission. If the commission de
cides, on taking all of them into
account, that the construction of
the improvement will be of ad
vantage to the general public, we
are Inclined to believe it wil grant
the applicant's petition; if it de
cides that the improvement is not
needed and will disturb capital
that is already invested for the
purpose of caring for the area's
present and future needs, or in
short, will be contrary to public
policy, It will refuse to grant the
application.
If it be true, then, that the
interests behind the present ap
plication are financially able to
carry out all of their responsibili
ties, we may say that the petition
of the Northwest Power company
to develop the Marion Lake field
brings to a head an issue that is
of tremendous consequence to the
Willamette valley, an issue that is
none other than whether the time
has arrived to harness the enor
mous power resources of the Cas
cade mountains. For decades men
with vision have been looking to
the time when those very re
sources would transform the val
ley into an area of manufacturing
cities and towns with larger popu
lation and with enlarged oppor
tunities for prosperity. In such a
situation, it looks to us as though
Albany cannot afford to make a
record that can be interpreted as
being hostile to the proposed de
velopment. A 1 b a n y Democrat-Herald.
REMORSE COMES TOO LATE
The hardest thing in the world
for a man to face is the disillus
ionment and heart-ache of those
who have loved and trusted him.
When H. Colin Campbell. New
Jersey engineer, was arrested for
the notorious "torch murder" he
kept his composure and related
his story cooly and with self-possession.
He knew he had commit
ted a crime, he said, and he would
pay the penalty without whimper
ing. But when his wife visited the
jail to see him, and stood outside,
the barred door with tears in her
eyes, protesting that her love and
confidence were still undiminish
ed, the self-confessed slayer broke
down completely. He could face a
possible death sentence with
equanimity; he could not face his
wife.
Unfortunately, men usually re
member such things too late. If
Campbell had thought of it soon
er, the "torch murder" might nev
er have taken place. Klamath
Falls Herald.
THE POWER MENACE TO SAL
MON Renewing its warning that the
fishing industry of the northwest
is doomed unless power interests
are prevented from closing the
remaining spawning streams, the
Pacific Fisherman in its April is
sue contends for the recognition
of two principles for governing
the issuance of permits for fu
ture power projects on the rivt'eontributed something to aviation
ers of Oregon and Washington,
First, says this publication de-
voted to the fishing interests.
the burden of protecting the fish
where power dams are built
Doc Lewis Drop; Store
should fall upon the power in
terests and not upon the fiihin?
Industry, and. second, there are
power resources adequate for all
present needs and of the imme
diate future which can be de
veloped without interfering with
the salmon, and these should be
developed before salmon streams
are invaded.
The demands made by the Pa
cific Fisherman are reasonable
and, from the standpoint of jus
tice. Unassailable. The fishing in
dustry is one of the oldest a; 1
one of the largest in the norf -west.
Millions of dollars hav
been invested" in it. lt produces
annually millions of dollars in
revenue, it supports directly a
least 6000 people, it pays iarp
taxes and it produces vast quan
tities of rich food for the worl,
Why should it not be protected
from a menace which threat. mis
to make it an extinct resource'
Why should new industrial devel
opments not be required to rec
ognize its prior rights and safe
guard them before proceeding
with their plans? Astoria Budget.
HI RRAH FOR THE CITY
COUNCIL
The city Is to be commended
for the passage of ordinances that
will do away with the hand bill
and the carnival nuisances. Here
after it will not be necessary tor
a man to take a shovel with him
when he climbs Into his car at
night with which to scoop out the
bills that have been placed there.
When he approaches his home he.
will not have to wade through
piles of bills nor will they clutter
up his yard. These bills were
placed In cars and on porches
without the consent of the owner.
Those who placed them there
were therefore trespassing. The
custom was a nuisance and we
are glad to' see it suppressed.
If anybody can think of any
good reason for permitting a
carnival company to invade a city,
we will give a year's subscription
to our favorite daily newspaper.
To be sure, the calliope makes a
tine thing for fraternities to bor
row when they, want to serenade.
It drowns out the saxophone and
makes much better music. Aside
from that it is a nuisance and
worse. Nearly every time one
comes here, some focal girl gets
bug-house and follows the show.
The people who are spending the
most money with it are the kind
who have bills at the grocery
store unpaid. Time was when
kids got some amusement out of
the merry-go-round and the fer
ris wheel, but they have un)i
things now- with which to amute
themselves. Such an outfit takes
out of town the money that ought
to be used in paying bills to lo
cal merchants and the council did
the right thing in making the li
cense so high that there will he
little temptation to come here.
Corvallia iazelte-Tlme.
niAN't K-TAKERS AII
SCIENTIFIC rmK.KKss
If men did not take chance?,
there would be little human ad
vancement. No greater risks have
been taken in any branch of me
chanical progress than in avia
tion. The quarter of a century
which covers the history of prac
tical aviation is replete with tho
risks of high emprise. A flyer at
Santa Ana, Cal., took another one
this week. At 500 feet he cut off
the motor of his 2,S00-pound
plane and placed himself and his
craft at the mercies of providence
and a parachute, which had been
released from the plane by a coil
ed spring. The parachute, sixty
feet in diameter and containing
600 yards of silk, was opened af
ter the plane had dropped 200
feet, and wafted Its burden gent
ly to earth. A man had taken a
chance and demonstrated that it
could be done. His name is (Cap
tain) Roscoe Turner, Hollywood
stunt flyer, and ha undoubtedly
history. ueiungnam neraiu.
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